In the home stretch before hibernation, the brown bears of Katmai National Park and Preserve must keep their eyes on the prize to complete their ample figures. In order to survive the long Alaska ...

From mango-loving sloth bears to wild black bears with 23 cubs, discover the oldest bears ever known and what made them ...

Otis has become the face of Fat Bear Week, an annual online bracket-style competition that celebrates the heft of the brown bears at Katmai’s Brooks Falls. At that waterfall, bears gorge on ...

As the images above and below show, this atypical family group was seen in various parts of Katmai's Brooks River area — an extremely popular fishing spot for these Katmai bears.

Katmai National Park & Preserve's annual Fat Bear Week and its accompanying tournament of crowning a chubby champion for 2022.

Katmai National Park & Preserve's annual Fat Bear Week and its accompanying tournament of crowning a chubby champion for 2022.

Organizers at Katmai National Park, Alaska have revealed the four cubs competing in this year's Fat Bear Jr. contest. This year's competition includes some familiar faces: both the 2022 and 2023 ...

Katmai National Park & Preserve's annual Fat Bear Week and its accompanying tournament of crowning a chubby champion for 2022.

Welcome to Fat Bear Week 2023! Katmai National Park and Preserve’s brown bears spent the summer gorging on 4,500-calorie salmon, and they've transformed into rotund giants, some over 1,000 ...

Fall is for fat bears – and for Katmai National Park & Preserve’s annual Fat Bear Week and its accompanying tournament of crowning a chubby champion for 2022. Online voting by the public ...

Katmai National Park & Preserve's annual Fat Bear Week and its accompanying tournament of crowning a chubby champion for 2022.

Katmai National Park & Preserve's annual Fat Bear Week and its accompanying tournament of crowning a chubby champion for 2022.